Scroll Wrap for Buddhist Scriptures
- Date
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制作年 AD12
- Title
- ジンゴジコンシキンジイッサイキョウキョウチツ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- 竹、綾織裂
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
One of the numerous folders designed to protect the transcriptions making up an issai-kyo, a complete set of all the sutras in the Buddhist canon, this particular example was part of a set commissioned on the votive wish of the Retired Emperor Toba (1103-1156), and later donated in 1185 to the Jingoji Temple in Kyoto by the Retired Emperor GoShirakawa (1127-92). This folder is broadly indicative of the sophisticated aesthetic the Heian nobility brought to their religious life, and shows also the high level of craftsmanship of the day. Fastened to its upper end are the flat, braided cords used to secure the scrolls in the folder, the cords drawn together by three metal buckles in the shape of butterflies. The wooden tag attached to the upper braided cord bears two inscriptions Ryuse-abidon-ron (front) and Shojoron (reverse), both engraved and filled with gold ink, suggesting that two ron – dissertations on the Buddha’s teaching – were carefully wrapped inside the folder; the folder would then have been placed in a sutra box for storage. Split strips of bamboo, stained in black and knitted together with colorful threads, make up the main body of the folder itself, which is lined with mica plates over paper core. The borders are protected with bands of a pattern-weave silk cloth, woven in a floral scroll design.
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- Title (EN)
- Scroll Wrap for Buddhist Scriptures
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- Weights and quantities
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Quantity 1套
- Attachments
- コピー（久安五年（1149年）の墨書名があるものもあり、本品の制作年の目安）／神護寺経巻竹帙巻二七一号
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